Chinese government ‘frustrated’ by Canada’s lack of a policy towards China, says Brown

Patrick Brown recounts 30 years as a foreign correspondent, and how even after 20 years of reporting on China, he still doesn't fully understand it.

"Brown! Butterfly Mind!" That's what a secondary school teacher in Birmingham, England, in 1958, told veteran Canadian foreign correspondent Patrick Brown's parents. The remark was intended to be disparaging and was in reference to his short attention span, however, Mr. Brown wrote in the prologu...

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